Alshaimaa Salama Elattar <br/><br/>
Epidemiological features and quality of life in school age asthmatic children in cairo :   Community-based study /  
 دراسة الخصائص الوبائية وجودة الحياة فى الاطفال المصابين بالربو الشعبى فى سن المدرسة فى محافظة القاهرة :   دراسة قائمة على المجتمع 
Alshaimaa Salama Elattar ; Supervised Zeinab Mohamed Radwan , Dalia Ahmed Mohamed , Mohamed Saad Elbaz 
 - Cairo :   Alshaimaa Salama Elattar ,   2013 
 - 148 Leaves :   charts , facsimiles , maps ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics 
<br/><br/> The aims of work were to determine the prevalence of childhood asthma, associated risk factors, and to assess the quality of life of the children and caregivers. The sample was randomly chosen from Nasr-City in Cairo governorate. 1461 families participated with 2394 school age children. 250 children were asthmatic with prevalence of 10.4%. Statistically significant relations were detected between the quality of life and each of maternal age, maternal education, maternal occupation, crowding index, house ventilation, Hospital admission for asthma, and Medical information by medical team about asthma 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Epidemiology  Quality of life  School age